Types of cases

• Personal injury
• Wrongful death
• Auto accidents
• Cycle and other vehicle accidents
• Construction accidents
• Farm injuries
• Professional negligence
• Bites from dogs

Joseph M. Troy is an honors graduate of Lawrence University and the University of Wisconsin Law School.

After a long and distinguished career as a judge, Mr. Troy returned to private practice with Habush Habush & Rottier in August 2007. Mr. Troy served as an Outagamie County Circuit Court and as Chief Judge of the 8th Judicial District in his 20-year career on the bench. In 2004 he was named Wisconsin Trial Judge of the Year by the American Board of Trial Advocates.

Mr. Troy is a member of the faculty of the National Judicial College, has been an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, has lectured nationally for the U.S. Department of Justice Amber Alert training for officers. He has served on the Wisconsin Civil Jury Instructions Committee, was Chair of the Wisconsin Committee of Chief Judges (2005-06) and of the Wisconsin Public Trust and Confidence Task Force, and was a founding board member and president of the Clean Break Juvenile Mentoring Program. In 2002, he received the President's Award for Public Service from the State Bar of Wisconsin.

Mr. Troy practices in the firm's Appleton office.

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BORN

Schenectady, New York, 1954

ADMITTED TO BAR

1980 Wisconsin and U.S. District Court, Western and Eastern Districts of Wisconsin

EDUCATION

1980University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI cum laude
1976Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, B.A., and graduated magna cum laude

MEMBERSHIPS

Outagamie County and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Wisconsin; American Association for Justice; Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers.

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

Elected to Outagamie County Circuit Court in 1987, 1993, 1999, 2005
Presiding Outagamie County judge Chief judge of the Eighth District (1999-2006)
Chair of the Wisconsin Committee of Chief Judges (2005-06)
Chair of the Wisconsin Public Trust and Confidence Task Force Wisconsin Civil Jury Instructions Committee(1993-present)
President's Award for Public Service from the State Bar of Wisconsin (2002)
Founding board member and president of the Clean Break Juvenile Mentoring Program National Judicial College faculty (2000-07)
Lecturer at the U.S. Department of Justice Amber Alert training for officers Instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (1994-2007)

LOCATION

Mr. Troy practices in the Appleton office.

EMAIL

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